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The unique Inter-City APT-E , Advanced Passenger Train Experimental , being moved and reconfigured to a 3 car unit , outside the Shildon branch of the National Railway Museum .
Pima Air and Space Museum
BOEING A160T HUMMINGBIRD
SERIAL NUMBER A18
Current markings: Boeing Advanced Systems, 2012
Development of the A160 Hummingbird was begun in 1998 by the San Diego based company, Frontier Systems, under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. As a UAV, the Hummingbird was intended to provide battlefield support for ground forces without placing a flight crew in danger. The helicopter was also intended to provide cargo deliveries of up to 2,500 pounds, perform reconnaissance missions, act as a communications relay, and provide target acquisition for other aircraft. The A160 first flew in 2002 and DARPA awarded Frontier Systems a contract for four development aircraft the next year. Frontier Systems was absorbed by Boeing in 2004. Development of the Hummingbird continued under Boeing's Phantom Works and later as a part of Boeing's Advanced Systems component.
The A160T is a turbine-powered version of the aircraft that first flew in 2007. The Hummingbird underwent testing at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona and performed tropical environment testing in Belize in 2010. The Hummingbird competed with the Kaman K-MAX for a U.S. Marine contract but did not win. In 2011, the U.S. Navy cancelled its development contract for the A160 as did the U.S. Army at the end of 2012. With this, development of the Hummingbird program ceased, and the aircraft were sold as surplus.
Technical Specifications:
Main Rotor Diameter: 36 ft
Length: 35 ft
Maximum weight: 6,499 lbs
Maximum speed: 160 mph
Maximum Range: 1,609 miles
Service ceiling: 26,247 ft
Engine: One Pratt & Whitney PW207D turboshaft with 700hp
Crew: 0
I was digging through stuff and found my old Advanced Photo System camera. APS was about the most useless advancement in photography ever. (The most useless being disc film.) Way to go Kodak, George would be proud.
Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. After its discovery in 1903 by the French Antarctic Expedition it was used for whaling and British military operations (Operation Tabarin) during World War II and then continued to operate as a British research station until 1962.
In 1996 Port Lockroy was renovated and is now a museum and post office operated by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust. Proceeds from the small souvenir shop fund the upkeep of the site and other historic sites and monuments in Antarctica.
ARICA – Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa
ARICA 3 WAB 2076-WAC 1-TGR 1-B
•Rainfed Lowland
•High yielding over the best check (BW 348-1, NERICA L19, WITA 12)
•Grain quality (high milling recovery, low chalky, short cooking time)
•Suitable country (Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo)
•Mali and Nigeria will proceed to variety release processes
A new generation of high-performing rice varieties has been launched by the Africa Rice Breeding Task Force under a new brand called “ARICA” – which stands for “Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa.”
The Breeding Task Force comprises international and national rice breeders from 30 African countries and operates as part of the Japan-funded project “Developing the Next Generation of New Rice Varieties for Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.”
Criteria of ARICA (Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa)
•Need to have advantages over the best check varieties in a region
•Advantages claimed should have clear basis of data accumulated in the prior trials, to ensure credibility of descriptions of a new variety.
•Evaluated in Breeding Task Force trials
•No need to go through all phases, if one decides to go through variety release system of a country
Procedure of nomination of ARICA
•AfricaRice shares data of trials with NARS partner.
•Based on the data provided together with their own, NARS select breeding lines to proceed to variety release in the country and inform AfricaRice of its decision.
•AfricaRice analyses all available data on the lines to be released and decides on ARICA nomination by communicating with the NARS.
•At the annual meeting of the Breeding Task Force, NARS will update on performance and characteristics of ARICA lines and status of variety release
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Nomenclature
•No subtitle for environment
•Depending on the order of nomination, a new variety will receive the ARICA name if it fulfills all the criteria. The name does not indicate any ecology. e.g. ARICA 1 can be for any ecology
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
Prudence Siebert
Advanced Media Training Instructor Lt. Col. Stacy Bathrick provides feedback to a Command and General Staff College Intermediate Level Education student, while ILE students observe while waiting their turns, after a mock morning program interview March 1 at the television studio in Eisenhower Hall. Students in the four-hour block of instruction addressed a scenario concerning the war-zone shooting of a 12-year-old boy in three types of interviews. Photo credit Prudence Siebert